SERA CONGI IS LIVE IN QUINCY WITH MORE ON THIS CASE. SERA: THE VICTIM DETAILED THIS FRIGHTENING ATTACK AND ASKED QUINCY POLICE TO ORDER THE DOG BE EUTHANIZED. THE OWNER OF THE DOG APOLOGIZED TO THE VICTIM AND SAID THE DOG HAD NEVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE. >> I DON’T WANT TO SEE THAT DOG AGAIN, I’M SCARY. SERA: SIRIMAKORN KHANTAK IS RECOVERING FROM SEVERAL DOG BITES AFTER AN ATTACK IN HER QUINCY NEIGHBORHOOD. CELL PHONE IMAGES SHOW KHANTAK PERCHED ON PORCH RAILING TRYING TO ESCAPE THE 109 POUND CANE CORSO, SHE SAYS THE DOG BIT HER SIX TIMES. >> THAT DAY HAPPENED, AND I COULDN’T SLEEP WELL, THINK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY. >> I’M GOING TO ASK YOU TO EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED IN YOUR OWN WORDS. SERA: AT A HEARING LED BY QUINCY POLICE, KHANTAK SAID THE UNPROVOKED ATTACK LASTED 25 MINUTES, NOTHING HAPPENED BECAUSE THE DOG DIDN’T EVEN BARK, JUST JUMPED ON ME, FELL, YELLED SO LOUD FOR HELP. SERA: THE DOG’S OWNER WAS NOT PRESENT WHEN THE ATTACK HAPPENED. HE TESTIFIED THAT HIS PET HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE. >> I JUST WANT TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE ATTACK. I’M VERY SORRY. SERA: KHANTAK REQUESTED THAT QUINCY POLICE ORDER THE DOG BE EUTHANIZED. >> IT’S NOT A DECISION SHE ARRIVED AT LIGHLY, MINDFUL THIS IS SOMEBODY’S PET THIS IS A FEROCIOUS AND SUSTAINED ATTACK THAT WENT ON FOR A LONG TIME. >> IT’S SURPRISING THAT IT HAPPENED. I DON’T BLAME THEM FOR WANTING TO BE EUTHANIZED BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW THE DOG LIKE I DO, FIRST TIME MEETING AND THAT HAPPENED. BTU SHE’S NOT REALLY LIKE THAT. SERA: WHEN THIS ATTACK HAPPENED THE DOG WAS BEING WATCHED BY THE OWNERS COUSIN. ONCE QUINCY POLICE MAKES THE DECISION THE OWNER HAS THE R

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Updated: 12:16 PM EDT Sep 10, 2019

A hearing was Tuesday in the case of a dog who attacked a woman in Quincy.The 2-year-old cane corso is currently under quarantine after attacking Sirimakorn Khantak at a home near the intersection of Elmwood Avenue and Norfolk Street in Wollaston on Sept. 2. “I don’t want to see that dog again,” Khantak said.Cellphone images show Khantak perched on a porch railing trying to escape the 109-pound dog. She said the animal bit her six times.A man was dogsitting Genesis at the time of the attack. Khantak said he did little to stop the unprovoked attack, which she said lasted 25 minutes. “The dog didn’t even bark, just jumped on me. I fell, yelled for help. That guy didn’t even move,” she said. Evan Bean, the dog’s owner, was not present when the attack happened.He testified that his pet has never done anything like this before.“I just want to apologize for the attack,” he said. “I’m very sorry.”Khantak requested that Quincy police order the dog be euthanized. “It’s not a decision that she arrived at lightly. She is mindful that this is somebody’s pet. This is a ferocious and sustained attack that went on for a long time,” her attorney said.“It’s surprising that it happened. I don’t blame them for wanting to be euthanized because they don’t know the dog like I do -- first time meeting and that happened. But she’s not really like that,” Bean said.

QUINCY, Mass. —

A hearing was Tuesday in the case of a dog who attacked a woman in Quincy.

The 2-year-old cane corso is currently under quarantine after attacking Sirimakorn Khantak at a home near the intersection of Elmwood Avenue and Norfolk Street in Wollaston on Sept. 2.

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Cellphone images show Khantak perched on a porch railing trying to escape the 109-pound dog. She said the animal bit her six times.

A man was dogsitting Genesis at the time of the attack.

Khantak said he did little to stop the unprovoked attack, which she said lasted 25 minutes.

“The dog didn’t even bark, just jumped on me. I fell, yelled for help. That guy didn’t even move,” she said.

Evan Bean, the dog’s owner, was not present when the attack happened.

He testified that his pet has never done anything like this before.

“I just want to apologize for the attack,” he said. “I’m very sorry.”

Khantak requested that Quincy police order the dog be euthanized.

“It’s not a decision that she arrived at lightly. She is mindful that this is somebody’s pet. This is a ferocious and sustained attack that went on for a long time,” her attorney said.

“It’s surprising that it happened. I don’t blame them for wanting to be euthanized because they don’t know the dog like I do -- first time meeting and that happened. But she’s not really like that,” Bean said.